6.2 22/10 Rights: Social model of disability and new disability rights:
implications for employment policy
Disabilities barriers
Can be in terms of physical impairments, or the barriers placed on the disabled
by societys discrimination
Prevents the disabl

7.2 29/10 Introduction to Responsibilities
Rights imply - obligations
- responsibilities
=> Is it possible to have rights without responsibilities?
=> Should it be a prerequisite for being part of a community?
Discussions surrounding responsibilities ca

7.1 27/10 Rights: Do lone parents have the right to prioritise care?
Right to work vs. Right not to work
Should lone parents prioritise paid work or care work?
Should they have a choice of which one to prioritise?
Recent increase in lone parent famili

9.1 10/11 Paternalist social policy: reforming welfare for sick and disabled
people
Lecture
[Insert examples of benefits]
Largest proportion of long-term recipients of benefits are the sick or disabled
Benefits are now orientated around what the disable

4.2 8/10 Needs: Employment as the tool to meet economic needs
Unemployment is a cyclical phenomena and responds to the changes in the
economic environment
Social security changes/distorts the relationship between needs, rights and
responsibilities
Stat

9.2 12/11 Responsibilities: Contesting individualised responsibility and the privileging of
paid work
Lecture
Transitioning from a passive to an active welfare state
Nordic countries are particularly successful -> high spending on active labour market pol

3.2 1/10 Needs: Education and the Need for Schooling
How do we education our children to:
Prepare them to enter the economy?
Sustain their cultural identity?
The problem with current educational system is that we are trying to prepare
children for the

5.2 15/10 The young and the rightless?: Young peoples rights in a Europe in
crisis
Are youth rights sufficiently promoted and protected in Europe today or do we
need a dedicated instrument?
Strong preference in favour of the middle-aged in terms of posi

2.1 22/9 The Language and History of Social Policy
Lecture
Social policy can be defined by the way things are debated, and/or the types of
debates involved
e.g. meaning of fair, just, right these vary and shape social policy
BRIEF HISTORY
Medieval/Tutor

6.1 20/10 Can children have rights?
Lecture
Rights as the language of equality
Rights reside with the rights holder, duty placed on others to make sure they are
not excluded
Rights are collective, not individual
They should increase the mutual respect to

8.1 03/11 Children: Whose responsibility?
Lecture
Does/should the state have any role in intervening in family life?
Are children merely the private responsibility of the parents?
What does responsibility for a child mean?
=> Provision (paying for good